? ? ? ? What fate! With the journey all but completed to be thus wrecked upon the wrong side of that precipitous and unscalable wall of rock and ice!
? ? ? ? I looked at Thuvan Dihn. He but shook his head dejectedly.
? ? ? ? The balance of the night we spent shivering in our inadequate sleeping silks and furs upon the snow that lies at the foot of the ice-barrier.
? ? ? ? With daylight my battered spirits regained something of their accustomed hopefulness, though I must admit that there was little enough for them to feed upon.
? ? ? ? "What shall we do?" asked Thuvan Dihn. "How may we pass that which is impassable?"
? ? ? ? "First we must disprove its impassability," I replied. "Nor shall I admit that it is impassable before I have followed its entire circle and stand again upon this spot, defeated. The sooner we start, the better, for I see no other way, and it will take us more than a month to travel the weary, frigid miles that lie before us.
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